# Woman cured of diabetes!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 20, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-cured-of-diabetes/300239 "2005-04-20T15:31:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-cured-of-diabetes/300239/1 "2005-04-20T15:31:21Z")

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[Woman cured of diabetes via transplant](http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050419-043008-9390r.htm)

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> A Japanese woman has been cured of diabetes via a donor transplant of insulin-producing cells from her mother.
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> It is the first time an islet cell transplant from a living donor has worked. Three months after the operation at Japan’s Kyoto University Hospital, both mother and daughter are fit and well, the BBC reported Tuesday.
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> However, the woman must take powerful drugs to stop her rejecting the new cells, according to Matsumoto.

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-cured-of-diabetes/300239/2 "2005-04-20T15:38:08Z")

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It’s only a beginning. It’s just a step in the right direction. There are probably loads of problems and complications that still need to be worked out.

But…

WOOHOO!

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**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-cured-of-diabetes/300239/3 "2005-04-20T15:45:23Z")

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Insulin-dependent diabetes is such a tough disorder. I see these patients all the time for home health and also in the dialysis clinic. There have been great strides in research, but so much more could be done if more funding was available. The rare kidney-pancreas transplant is a difficult procedure with mixed results. Let’s all hope for a cure/successful treatment in the near future!

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-cured-of-diabetes/300239/4 "2005-04-20T16:11:29Z")

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Yeah, I’m holding off on my “woohoo” until they come up with a cure that doesn’t involve taking immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of my life. I’d rather have diabetes.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-cured-of-diabetes/300239/5 "2005-04-20T16:33:12Z")

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It’s a positive step. Myself, I’d pass on the surgery since the rejection drugs scare me more than diabetes does. Any progress is good news, when we get around the rejection drugs we’ll really have something.